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beautiful art and themes
ABSOLUTE FAV
balance and respect for living creatures and cycles of nature, plus a super interesting tie between the mythic and scientific
fundamentally just a little guy solvin problems.
"Possibly set in Meiji/late 19th century Japan, Mushishi is a series of related, yet separate short stories featuring Ginko, a mushishi. A mushishi or "mushi master" is a cross between a researcher/scholar/doctor/shaman who travels across the countryside searching for mu
i feel like there may be a little bit missing due to translation in terms of wordplay and jokes but overall this was swell.
this is a series of mystery stories, the live-action is also really good
"Kunou Totonou is a perceptive college student who's often forced to think his way out of dangerous situations.
The story starts with the police questioning him on suspicion of murdering his classmate."
the art for this is really good but the story premise is god tier
"Asato Minami has a "unique constitution." He senses the lingering thoughts of murder victims, and experiences the circumstances under which they died with his own body in a reaction similar to stigmata. This proves useful in solving difficult cases with the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Investigations Unit Six."
OH MY GOD THERES A SEQUEL AND ITS A ROMANCE TOO
"Asako Minami has a "unique constitution." He senses the lingering thoughts of the deceased and experiences the circumstances under which they died with his own body in a reaction similar to stigmata. This proves useful in solving difficult cases with the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Investigations Unit Six."
Great mystery and story!! i loved his ability, its a lot like Stigmata. Ending is a lil rushed.
"Kuroda is a police investigator with a special talent for sniffing out corpses -- literally -- due to a traumatic event in his childhood where he was trapped in a room with his deceased family members for several days. After being assigned to the Missing Persons Division where they hope to make the best use of his ability, he meets a genius detective with an unbelievably high case closure rate."
wow ANOTHER short form detective style manga
also featuring yokai>?????????
basically what more could I ask for
"A young man who can see people’s sins in the form of youkai gets employed at a sort of odds-and-ends agency run by supernatural beings."
this is really cute and i love youkai stories so much, this is probably one of the most extensive youkai-themed mangas I've found!!
"Natsume is just an ordinary kid, except he can see spirits, just like his grandma Reiko could. Reiko, though, used to bully the spirits, and bound them to her will in the Book of Friends. Now that Natsume has inherited this book, a never-ending stream of spirits is coming after him"
by the same author of mushishi, and it is GRAND
she has such a great blend of sci fi and slice of life, plus there's some really incredible art in this one
"Flow—the phenomenon that occurs when matter falls out of balance and changes form. Flow creates oddities big and small that can be disruptive or delightful in equal measure, and it's up to Flow Disposal departments and independent contractors to shepherd the Flow back to its natural form."
technically it's a team...
nice chill horror story that isn't sensationalist
""Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo...among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off--you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP--gives them a direct line to the dead...the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation."
the art is so beautiful
each story is kind of a moral of excess. its a little gory / leans towards horror
she fulfills peoples wishes, it just doesn't always mean their wishes should have been fulfilled....
"Everyone has something they want, and Rin the match peddler is here to offer you your wildest dreams on a silver platter."
Mushishi